Statements

Statements

The European left party is deeply concerned about the situation in the Baltics after a Spanish Eurofighter/Typhoon "accidentally" fired an AMRAAM missile last night, that might have reached Russian territory. The Eurofighter was part of the NATO air policing over the Baltics. We are shocked that a Eurofighter 'accidentally' fired an air-to-air missile that carried deadly explosives on the highly sensitive NATO border.

The President of the European Left, Gregor Gysi, met in Strasbourg today with the President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Guido Raimondi, for political talks.

Both stressed that political power, even if by a majority, needs to be controlled if human rights and democracy are to be secured. They spoke about ways to implement decisions of the Court in case member states of the Council of Europe would not conform to them.

Between 2nd and 4th September 2016 a Leftist Festival was organised by the Organisers for the Left (SZAB) at Horány/Hungary in the Regatta Leisure Centre, where more than 800 people from the Civil Society Organisations as well as Hungarian left parties (e.g.

The Party of the European Left (EL) condemns the decision by the Brazilian Senate to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. This dismissal is the latest attempt to give legitimacy to the coup d’état which has been set up for months, true crime against democracy committed by the most corrupt sectors of Brazilian politics.